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Documentaries/Movies/ Shows

College Behind Bars : PBS - 

PBS College Behind Bars

Last Days of Solitary: PBS- 

Last Days of Solitary (full documentary) | FRONTLINE

 

Books

Six By Ten- 

Six By Ten

@Large Ai Weiwei - 

@Large: The Book

 

People

Brian Spies -

Brian Spies Artist

Meg Bergstrand - 

BVR academics: Prison Reform Design Studio

Stuart Grassian- 

Stuart Grassian, MD PSYCHIATRIC EFFECTS OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

Chez-Armand Blackwell 

https://solitarywatch.org/2021/03/31/voices-from-solitary-it-never-gets-easier/

 

 

Organizations

Solitary Gardens

Worth Rises

 

Primary Research

The psychological impact of solitary confinement – Workers World

Seven Days in Solitary [2/1/21]

Effects of Solitary Confinement on the Well Being of Prison Inmates

What Does Solitary Confinement Do To Your Mind?

The Art of Play | Brian Spies | TEDxWilliamsport

Off the Block

Voices from Solitary: It Never Gets Easier

Eastern State Penitentiary Artist Instillations

Morality | Radiolab

Solitary confinement facts

Timeline: Solitary Confinement in US Prisons


 

Extended Bibliography: 

"APA Psycnet". 2021. Psycnet.Apa.Org. https://psycnet.apa.org/search/display?id=24697fc3-3d1e-b49c-8c6d-21563456d9a9&recordId=1&tab=PA&page=1&display=25&sort=PublicationYearMSSort%20desc,AuthorSort%20asc&sr=1.

 

Cloud, David H., Ernest Drucker, Angela Browne, and Jim Parsons. 2015. "Public Health And Solitary Confinement In The United States". American Journal Of Public Health 105 (1): 18-26. doi:10.2105/ajph.2014.302205.

 

Drew Kann, CNN. 2021. "The US Still Incarcerates More People Than Any Other Country". CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/28/us/mass-incarceration-five-key-facts/index.html.

 

"Erik Ruin And Gelsey Bell: Hakim’S Tale". 2021. Easternstate.Org. https://www.easternstate.org/explore/artist-installations/erik-ruin-and-gelsey-bell-hakims-tale.

 

GRIEST, STEPHANIE ELIZONDO. "The Torture of Solitary." The Wilson Quarterly (1976-) 36, no. 2 (2012): 22-29. Accessed April 25, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41933882

 

Smith, Dana. 2018. "Neuroscientists Make A Case Against Solitary Confinement". Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuroscientists-make-a-case-against-solitary-confinement/.

 

"Rehabilitate Or Punish?". 2021. Https://Www.Apa.Org. https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug03/rehab.

 

Smith, Peter Scharff. "The Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prison Inmates: A Brief History and Review of the Literature." Crime and Justice 34, no. 1 (2006): 441-528. Accessed April 25, 2021. doi:10.1086/500626.

 

Stuart Grassian, Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement, 22 WASH. U. J. L. & POL’Y 325 (2006), https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy/vol22/iss1/24

 

"The Challenges Of Prisoner Re-Entry Into Society - Blog | Simmons Online". 2016. Online.Simmons.Edu. https://online.simmons.edu/blog/Prisoner-Reentry/.

 

"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CRUELTY: RECOGNIZING GRAVE MENTAL HARM IN AMERICAN PRISONS." Harvard Law Review 128, no. 4 (2015): 1250-271. Accessed April 27, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24643964.

 

V. P. Franklin. "COMMENTARY—SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: “I FEEL LIKE … NO ONE CARES ABOUT ME”." The Journal of African American History 98, no. 2 (2013): 197-98. Accessed April 27, 2021. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.98.2.0197.

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